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* Songs in different tonalities other than 12 notes per octave are labeled 19tet (19 notes per octave, equal temperament), 10tet (10 notes per octave, equal temparament), or Bohlen-Pierce Scale (an octave plus a fifth divided by 13, equally tempered), etc.

ZIA

MARTIANS (2006)

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TRACKS: 1. Martians (watch the video) | 2. Space 'Zine | 3. Geek Boy | 4. Supernova (Liz Lysinger) | 5. Zero G (Liz Lysinger) | 6. Cosmic Rain (For David Fischer RIP) | 7. Planet Jack | 8. Yuri Gagarin (World Space Party) | 9. Resolution (dance remix) | 10. ZiaSpace (Liz Lysinger)

NOTES: View the Martians Video filmed on Devon Island in the High Arctic (75 degrees North), Nunavut, Canada, for the NASA Haughton-Mars Project! Martians was officially released in October, 2006 at the XPrize Cup in Las Cruces, NM. Elaine was a fan of the XPrize since 1996, and it is a fantastic coincidence that her home town of Las Cruces would become the location for the yearly XPrize Cup events and Spaceport America! Martians marks the end of an era for ZIA, the time spent on the East Coast. Elaine was commissioned by the Haughton-Mars Project to film a music video on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic, 75 degrees North, with mission of inspiring the dream of humans living on Mars. The rest of the album is split between positive spacey messages and songs about loves lost. Plenty of hard-earned emotion is packed into this CD which is unusual for ZIA.

BIG BANG (2000)

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TRACKS: 1. Golden (19 tet) | 2. Plastic | 3. Breath | 4. Resolution (19 tet) | 5. Nibiru (19 tet) | 6. Space Man (12 tet/19 tet) | 7. Dummer (19 tet) | 8. Buchla Rise (19 tet) | 9. Slammin' | 10. Comatosity (19 tet) | 11. Spider (19 tet) | 12. Big Bang! (19 tet / 10 tet)

NOTES: Most of ZIA's live show consists of material from Big Bang, and it if you do not yet own a ZIA CD, buy this one first! The title track is about the grand comsic event, the Big Bang, from which we were born. Golden and Nibiru were strongly inspired by Zecharia Sitchin's book The 12th Planet. This CD goes beyond Elaine's love for cold technology and outer space, with some slightly more down to Earth songs, emotionally inspired during Elaine's married years.

SHEM (1995)
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TRACKS: Space Multimedia | 1. Future (10 tet) | 2. Hand Held (19 tet) | 3. Lie (19 tet) | 4. River (19 tet) | 5. Disevolve (19 tet)

NOTES: SHEM was released by Young American Records in Boston in 1995, supporting ZIA's first tour of the North Eastern states. Young American shared resources and personell with Boston's popular Performer Magazine. When the magazine had a hostile takeover by one of the investors, Young American lost their office space and other resources and went out of business. ZIA got picked up by Fifth Colvmn Records in DC, run by Jared from Chem Lab. ZIA went on a second tour of the South Eastern states in 1996. Fifth Colvmn was eventually dropped by Caroline and went out of business. SHEM's lyrical content was strongly inspired by Zecharia Sitchin's book The 12th Planet. Hand Held is ZIA's first hint at a love song, about a video character wanting to feel a human touch. Disevolve was inspired by the book Neuromancer. River pokes fun of both liberals and conservatives alike. The more raw, funky sound of SHEM was inspired by the popular Grunge/Metal band Cobalt 60 because Elaine was soon to be married to the guitarist, Dan Mullen.

ZIA V1.5 (1992)
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TRACKS: 1. Mother (19 tet) | 2. The Building (19 tet / Bohlen-Pierce Scale) | 3. Reconstruction / Destruction (19 tet) | 4. Sol (10 tet) | 5. Space Time (19 tet / Bohlen-Pierce Scale) | 6. Agribusiness (19 tet) | 7. Animal | 8. New Way (19 tet) | 9. Pagan Goddess (19 tet) | 10. Stick Men (Bohlen-Pierce Scale)

NOTES: ZIAv1.5 was a self release, first available on cassette in 1992 with just a handful of the songs. This version was called ZIAv1.0. When Elaine added more songs or re-mastered a song ZIA would release a new version. ZIAv1.1 and ZIAv1.2 through 1.4 followed. People who had bought the cassette could simply return the cassette and a new upgrade would be sent for only the cost of shipping. This was a gimmick designed to emulate software upgrades. The final upgrade was to a CD, offered at a discounted price. ZIA v1.5 is inspired by transhumanism, space exploration and other futurist themes. There is also a strong environmentalist theme throughout with Mother and New Way referring indirectly to Mother Earth, The Building and Reconstruction alluding to temporary buildings and toxic waste. Agribusiness was inspired by Elaine's newfound vegetarianism, Space-Time and Disevolve inspired by the book Neuromancer and transhuminist ideas. Sol was inspired by Sun Diver and Pagan Goddess by Earth, both books by David Brin. Animal was inspired by events at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and Stick Men refers to the clash of Native Americans and the white men which they called "stick men" because they used sticks to mark off territory for agriculture.

DISEVOLUTION (1998) (Remixes of Disevolve)
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TRACKS: 1. Disevolve (19 tet) | (original mix from SHEM EP) | 2. Clouded Mix (Gair Marking & Dominick Annuzzi) | 3. Purity Mix (Gair Marking & Dominick Annuzzi) |4. A New Mankind (Alexx Reed of Thou Flaming Minister) | 5. Cosmic Voyeur Mix (Dominick Annuzzi)

NOTES: The original version of Disevolve can be found on rare copies of ZIAv1.0 - 1.5, however, this song was eventually removed from the final version of ZIAv1.5. A newer version of Disevolve is on the EP SHEM. Disevolve was the last of the "screaming songs". With industrial, IDM and goth influences, these quality remixes of Disevolve should not be overlooked!

ELAINE WALKER (SOLO)

Please contact Elaine if you belong to a space or transhuman organization and are interested in purchasing hard copies of Elaine Walker or ZIA CDs for resale as a fundraiser.

FRONTIER CREATURES (1999)

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TRACKS: 1. Frontier Creature | 2. Space Gen | 3. Buchla Rise (Immortal Mix) (19 tet) | 4. Space Man (19 tet) | 5. Planetarium | 6. Big Bang! (Space-Time Mix) | 7. Ad Astra! | 8. Back To The Moon | 9. To Mars! (original version) | 10. 10th Planet (10 tet)

NOTES: Elaine Walker frequently sings at pro-space conventions, and "Frontier Creatures" is a compilation of the music that she first performed at space conferences in 1999 and 2000. It was manufactured primarily as an NSS fundraiser for chapters.

MARS (2000)

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TRACKS: 1. To Mars! | 2. Red Dreams | 3. Devon Island | 4. New World (Instrumental) | 5. From Earth to Mars | 6. Martian Nation | 7. Humans and Martian Machines (Golden Ratio Tuning - EW) | 8. Martian Man | 9. John Carson

NOTES: Lyrics on Red Dreams by Peter Diamandis, Lyrics on From Earth to Mars by Kevin Leclaire. Devon Island and Martian Man were inspired by the Haughton-Mars Project.

HITEN (2001)

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TRACKS: 1. Hiten | 2. Hiten (Instrumental)

NOTES: This CD is dedicated to the Hiten Japanese spacecraft of 1991 that traveled to the moon using Edward Belbruno's chaotic orbits (weak stability boundary transfer, or "Belbruno Transfer"). The Cover Art: "Route to the Moon", oil on canvas, 56" x 72", 1991, Edward Belbruno. The Poem: "The Navigators" by Keith Gottschalk, South Africa. The Music: "Space Dancer" by Elaine Walker. See Ed Belbruno’s home page.

SPACE ELEVATOR MUSIC (2001)

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TRACKS: 1. Red Dreams | 2. Cosmos | 3. Big Bang (space-time mix) (19 tet / Bohlen-Pierce Scale) | 4. Buchla Rise (immortal mix) (19 tet) | 5. Devon Island | 6. Martian Man | 7. Space Man (19 tet) | 8. Martian Nation | 9. Space 'Zine | 10. Hiten

NOTES: Space Elevator Music is a full-length instrumental CD which has been described as “relaxing instrumental music for your extremely long elevator ride into space”. Some of the intrumentals are borrowed from Elaine's Frontier Creatures and MARS CDs, sans vocal tracks. Karaoke, if you will!

SCHIZOID ARIA (1986)

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TRACKS: 1. Monophobian (early version) | 2. Gypsy Girl (early version) 3. My Love Won't Fade | 4. Doubtful Thought | 5. Twisted and Scattered | 6. Young and Golden Haired | 7. Milky Turquoise (early version) | 8. Something In A Dream | 9. In the End (early version) | 10. These Tears I'm Crying

NOTES: During the summer of 1986, Elaine and Scott Parsons joined forces to create the band, Schizoid Aria. Half of the reportoire includes songs written and sung by Scott P. and the other half were written and sung by Elaine Walker - thus the name Schizoid Aria. This CD is a live recording of Elaine's songs only. It was recorded live to 3-track tape (one track was broken).

BLUE CARTOON (1989)

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ACADEMIC MUSIC

CHAOS MELODY THEORY MUSIC
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see -----> Chaos Melody Theory Research

1-rx^2 (1992)

These 4 movements were improvised in MAX using Chaos Melody Theory, triggering a synthesizer tuned to the Bohlen-Pierce Scale. -----> 1. Movement 1 | 2. Movement 2 | 3. Movement 3 | 4. Movement 4

Elaine improvising on her homemade Chaos Controller in 2000.

MICROTONAL MUSIC
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see -----> Bohlen-Pierce Scale Research

see also -----> Microtonality

Love Song (2007, unreleased) (Bohlen-Pierce Scale)
Stick Men (2000, ZIA, Big Bang CD) (Bohlen-Pierce Scale)
Golden (2000, ZIA, Big Bang CD) (19 tet)
Resolution (2000, ZIA, Big Bang CD) (19 tet)
Hand Held (1995, ZIA, SHEM CD)( (19 tet)
Future (1995, ZIA, SHEM CD) (10 tet)
Future (1993, D.D.T., Discomedia) (10 tet)
Evolution (1993, D.D.T., Discomedia) (10 tet)
Vivid (1993, D.D.T., Discomedia) (10 tet)
Cover of Madonna's Vogue (1993, D.D.T., Discomedia) (19 tet)
Humans and Martian Machines (2000, MARS CD) (Golden Ratio Tuning)

NOTES: This is a partial listing. Other microtonal songs on this page are labeled with 10tet, 19tet, etc. See also -----> Microtonality.

D.D.T.

DISCOMEDIA (1993)
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TRACKS: 1. Evolution (10 tet) | 2. Vivid (Lisa on vocals) (10 tet) | 3. H2O (Remix) (19 tet) | 4. Fraction (19 tet) | 5. Vogue (Madonna cover) (19 tet) | 6. Abort (19 tet) | 7. AID (19 tet) | 8. Blessed | 9. Birth Defect (19 tet) | 10. H20 (19 tet) | 11. Treblinka (19 tet) | 12. Toxin (19 tet) | 13. Future (10 tet)

NOTES: D.D.T. was a hardcore aggro-industrial electronic act that was together in Boston from the late 1980's until the mid 1990's. Noel McKenna did drum programming and vocals, Lisa Sirois did (8 bit!) samples and some vocals, and Elaine Walker (who joined in late 1991) did synth programming. Note that every song is micro/macrotonal except Blessed. This adds a futuristic and other-worldly edge to the music. Elaine joined D.D.T. at the same time she was forming ZIA. The first ZIA lineup consisted of Noel McKenna and Lisa Sirois of D.D.T. Where are they now? Noel is now a Buddhist Monk in upstate New York and Lisa is DJ Goldilox in San Francisco.

NUMBER SINE

NUMBER SINE EP (2007)

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TRACKS: 1. Frozen Love | 2. Lights Out Landing | 3. This is War | 4. Visible Secret | 5. While I'm Gone

NOTES: “Mars meets Venus. A boy meets a girl. A comet from space crashed into a lonely guitar.” Number Sine was the collaboration of Jason Hardy [vox/guitar/songwriting] and Elaine Walker [vox/synths/beats/production]. Luke Hill provided live drum performances. Number Sine was signed to Mirage Records (a branch of Red Truck Entertainment) for a brief period of time in 2007 and played seven gigs, when it suddenly came to an end. See: myspace.com/numbersine.

COMPILATIONS

SHE - A FEMALE TRIP-HOP EXPERIENCE (Sonic Images Records)

1. LAIKA uneasy
2. CRUSTATION purple
3. KIKIWEST creeper
4. LAMB lusty
5. MANDALAY insensible
6. CRUSTATION down, down
7. LORE my soul speaks
8. HYBRID i know
9. ZIA cosmic rain
10. BITSTREAM DREAM buddha’s patio
11. SWANDIVE demunication
12. THE DREAMING thank you
13. THE STARSEEDS parallel life

BostonElectro101

BOSTON ELECTRO 101 (SINless Records)

1. Out Out, Duchess Deception
2. Sector 7G, Needle Whore (live version)
3. Mercymore, Penetrate Me
4. Struktur, Terra
5. Battery Cage, Disengage
6. Institute of Technology, Miserable (Post-Mortem Mix)
7. D.D.T., Future (10 tet)
8. Murderous Race, Negra
9. Grenadier, Redemption (v. alpha)
10. ZIA, Agribusiness (10 tet)
11. din_fiv, Clear...
12. disko:chaos, Tentacles Rebirth
13. informätik, Nameless
14. Sleep Chamber, Dreams Never Kum True (19 tet)
15. Data-Bank-A, Nuclear Winter

ShutUpKitty

SHUT UP KITTY (Cargo / Re-Constriction)

1. Mysterious Ways - KMFDM 2. Cold Sweat - Diatribe 3. Sympathy For The Devil - Skrew 4. White Rabbit - Death Method 5. Obsession - Blue Eyed Christ 6. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Xorcist 7. Paranoid - Clay People 8. Vogue (19 tet) - D.D.T. 9. Freedom Of Choice - 16 Volt 10. She Watch Channel Zero! - A-Politiq; 11. Boy - Non-Aggression Pact 12. Burnin' Up - Babyland 13. Stand And Deliver - Society Burning 14. Good Vibrations - Fleshhouse 15. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Martyr Colony 16. Order Of Death - Virus 23 17. Bonus Track - Various Artists

ECHO_FifthColvmn96

ECHO (Fifth Colvmn Records)

ZIA: Space-Time Remix (19 tet/Bohlen-Pierce Scale)

mindbody3

MIND/BODY3 (DIY Productions DIY 2-3 - 1995)

CD1 (Mind):
1. NOISIA - Kill It (Bugtown-Snuff mix)
2. not breathing - Robitussin (Codine Mix)
3. Tinty Music - No escape from time
4. The Evolution Control Committee - roolF drihT
5. Unsolicited Eulogy - Imprecation Of The Slain
6. AREA_39 - Ritual
7. Coma - Call Of The Bell
8. Solas - Ivy Song (mix Apocalypti)
9. (Ã˜) the set of nothing - Truth in the Gas Chamber
10. Intonarumori (The Unit Circle) - Focus & Decay
11. Ipecac Loop - Backbreaker
12. Urban Ambience - The Bergamot Harvest
13. Graveyard Cafe - Afterlifestyles
14. Shevnik Sleep Research - Every Summer New Flowers

CD2 (Body):
1. the Machine in the Garden - Machinery (mind/body mix)
2. ZIA - Pagan Goddess (19 tet)
3. Contigence - The Schismatisist
4. Denoument - Suspension of Disbelief
5. Six Sigma - Save Our State
6. [cybpunk] - Moonshot
7. Stromkern - Konzentrationslagen
8. You Shriek! - V: One Point Ã˜
9. Informatik - Autonomous
10. SpineFolder - Sentient At Last
11. Struktur - InfOrb
12. Prime Mover - My Third Eye
13. Hard Drive - Betrayed
13. Smothered Hope - Unseen (Acid Mix)
14. The Insult That Made a Mac Out of Mac - Shut Up

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